Broom.



Patented May 27, I902.

F. J. ELLIS 8:. A. R. BOUG.

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(Application filed Feb. 27, 1902.)

(No Model.)

. 314 vcml'ozs UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDRIOK JAMES ELLIS AND AUBREY R. DOUG, OF LONDON, CANADA.

BROOM SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 701,182, datedMay 27, 1902. Application filed February 27, 1902. Serial No. 95,861.(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FREDRIOK JAMES ELLIs and AUBREY R. Bone, citizensof Canada, residing at London, in the Province of Ontario and Dominionof Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Brooms, of whichthe following is a specification. 7

Our invention relates to broom-heads; and it consists in the extremelysimple and inexpensive, easily-applied, and efficient means hereinafterspecifically described and claimed for preventing doubling or twistingof the broom-head and otherwise lending strength and durability to thehead.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a broom-headequipped with our improvements; Fig. 2, a detail transverse sectiontaken in the plane indicated by the line 2 2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, aperspective view of the metallic band forming part of our improvements,removed from the broom-head.

Referring by letter to said drawings, A is a broom-head formed ofbroom-corn or other suitable material and attached to a handle B in theordinary or any other approved manner; C C, the ordinary twine bindings,which may be employed on the upper portion of the broom-head, and D themetallic band of my improvement. The band D is of such length that whenit is passed around the broom-head at or about the horizontal medianline thereof the lapped portions of its arms a will eX- tendapproximately two -thirds of the distance across one side of the head,as shown in Fig. 1this in order to enable the continuous connection offine wire or twine E, presently described, to better hold the armstogether and on the head A and also to add to the strength of the head.At the ends of its said arms a the band D is provided with pointedprongs 19, disposed at right angles to the arms. These prongs preferablycorrespond in length to the thickness of the head A, and when the bandis applied to said head they are designed to be embedded in the headafter the manner best shown in Fig. 2, so as to assist inholding theband in position and remove a portion of the strain from the fine wireor thread E, The latter is carried to and fro through the head A andlooped over the portions of the band at opposite sides of the head, andit serves, in addition to connecting the band to the head, to hold thelapped arms a of the band together.

It will be appreciated from the foregoing that the band D is applied tothe headA and secured thereon through the medium of the wire or twine Ewith great facility, with the result that my improvements add but littleto the cost of producing the broom. It will also be appreciated thatwhen applied and connected to the band A, at or about the hori zontalmedian line thereof, the band D is calculated to lend considerablestrength to the head and effectually prevent the objectionable unduebending or twisting of the head, and, further, that when the band D issewed perfectly tight to the broom-corn or other material of thebroom-head the connection of the handle B and the upper portion of thehead is materially strengthened and the durability of the broom as awhole increased.

Having described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-

The combination with the broom-head; of the metallic band surroundingthe head at or about the horizontal median line thereof, and having thelapped arms at extending across the major portion of one side of thehead, and terminating in the angular prongs b corresponding in length tothe thickness of the head, and embedded therein, and the continuousconnection extending from one edge of the head to the other, and passedto and fro through the head and looped over the portions of the band atopposite sides of said head.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of twosubscribing witnesses FREDRIOK JAMES ELLIS. AUBREY R. BOUG.

W'itnesses:

JARED VINING, WM. STRANG.

